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Fine, here's another from Ronald Hensen at Delft:

Experimental loophole-free violation of a Bell inequality using entangled electron spins separated by 1.3 km 2015 https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05949v1

"...This result rules out large classes of local realist theories, and paves the way for implementing device-independent quantum-secure communication and randomness certification. "

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This isn't relevant because Bohm's theory isn't local. There are much stronger results like PBR ruling out a large class of non-local realist theories, but that also doesn't include pilot wave theory.

No known experiment can rule it out because it's predictions equal those of Copenhagen.

This is something different. Zeilinger paints himself disproving realism alone and has a well known philosophical stance/bias here. Local realism testing here however is about being both local and realist, and pilot waves aren't local to begin with.

Yeah, that makes sense. Do you have an example of Zeilinger's writing where he discusses his philosophical stance?

Is a philosophical stance something you believe that a physicist shouldn't have?

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